THE IMPACT OF THE PEASANT FARMS FUNCTIONING ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE LIVING LEVEL OF THE RURAL POPULATION. A CASE STUDY OF VOLYN REGION, UKRAINE

The article analyses the modern features and the differentiation level of the rural population life quality. The influence of income from personal peasant farms the functioning on the rural population life quality is considered. The peculiarities of functioning of personal peasant farms are determined. The study proved, that the ratio of the consumed products grown value in personal peasant farms between the extreme decile groups, which are formed by average per capita expenditures, exceeded 5.3 times for the entire Volyn region household population in 2018. In order to visualize the presentation of information on the degree of uneven distribution of the average per capita money and total expenditures of rural personal peasant farms in the Volyn region of Ukraine, we constructed the Lorentz curve, which represents the cumulative distribution of population and the corresponding expenditures. The study proved, that the functioning of the private economy is a significant factor for the smoothing of income unevenness and social polarization of the rural population. It has been found that some levelling of living standards in the countryside is achieved largely by the self-sufficiency of food produced in the personal peasant farms than by the income from their sale.